The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-17
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Text of the Bill Defining Conspiracy-A
Measure of General Public Intere ~ :

Text of the Bill Defining Conspiracy-A
Measure of General Public Intere II
SrRfNGFIE1D, Ill, June 1.-THE follow-
ing is the Conspiracy bill as it has passed
both houses of the Legislature, and IS now
awaiting the Governors approval:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, ETC., That if two or
more persons shall conspire to do an unlawful
act dangerous in its character to human life,
or person, or property, or if its accomplishment
will necessarily or probably require the tlss OF
force and violence, which may result in the
taking of human life or injury to person or
property, every party to such conspiracy shall
be held criminally liable for whatever offense
any one or more of his co-eonspirators shall
commit in furtherance of the common design.
SEC. 2. If any person shall, by speaking to
any public or private assemblage of people, or
IN any public place, or shall by writing, print
ing or publishing, or causing to be written, pub
lshed or circulated, any written or printed
matter, advise, encourage, abet, or incite
local revolution, or the overthroying or de-
struction of the existing order OF society,
by force or violence, or the resistance
to and destruction of the lawful power
and authority of the legal authority of this
State, or of any of the towns, cities or counties
of this State, or resistance to the same by
force and violence, or by any Of the means
aforesaid shall advise, abet, encourage or in
cite the disturbance of the public peace,
and by such disturbance attempt a rev
olution or destruction CT public order,
or resistance to such authorities shall
thereafter ensue and human life is taken
or any person is injured, or property is de-
stroyed by any person or by any OF the means
employed to carry into effect the purpose to adj
vised, encouraged, aided, abetted or melted as
aforesaid; every person so aiding, advising, en-
couraging, abetting or melting the same shall
be deemed as having conSpired with. the
person or persons who actually COM
nit the crime, and shall be deemed
principal in the preparation OF the
same, and punished accordingly, and it shall
not be necessary for the prosecution to show
that the speaking was heard, or the written or
printed matter aforesaid was read or COM
municated to the person or persons actually
committing the crime, if such speaking,
writing. printing or publishing is shown to
have been done in public manner within this
State.
SEC. 8. II two or more persons conspire to
overthrow the existing order of society, by
force or violence, Or to bring about local
revolution by force, or to destroy or resist
and overcome the legal authorities of the
State or of any county, city or town
thereof, and a human being is killed, or
persons injured, or property destroyed by
! any of the persons engaged in such consp!r-
racy, or by any one who may participate with
tnGm IN the UNLAWFUL ueSlSn anu purpose. III
furtherance of the object of such conspiracy,
then all persons who may have conspired to-
gether as aforesaid, together with all persons
who may actively participate in carrying into
effect their common design, shall be deemed
guilty of the crime committed by any one or
more of such persons SO conspiring or acting
with such conspirators in the common de syn,
and shall be punished accordingly, notwith-
st anding the time and place for the bringing
about such revolution or overthrowing of public
order, or the destruction or overcoming of
such authorities had not been definitely agreed
/ upon by such conspirators, but was left to the
| exigeucies of the time the Judgment of CO.
| conspirators, or some one or more of them.
SEC 4. Hereafter 1t shall not be necessary in
order to establish conspiracy as aforesaid to
! prove that the parties charged ever came to-
gether ana entered into agreement, combina-
ton or arrangement to accomplish a
criminal or unlawful purpose, but 1t
| shall be sufficient if it appears that
the parties charged were actually pur-
suing in concert the unlawful purpose,
whether acting separately or together, at the
same or different times, by the same or differ
! ent means, providing that the acts of each We're
/ knowingly tending TO the same unlawful result
SECS. Nothing in this act contained shall
be construed as repeating by implication oil
| otherwise any law in force In this State.